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The Greatest Elseworlds Stories Ever Told! – Voting

Here’s the latest of the daily voting threads for The Greatest ____ Stories Ever Told!

Today we look at Elseworlds titles!

You have until 11:59 PM Pacific time, April 14th to vote for your top ten favorite Elseworlds comic book stories! Your choices will be revealed on April 15th.

You vote by sending your top ten choices to bcronin@comicbookresources.com (make the subject heading clear that it is about The Greatest Elseworlds Stories Ever Told Voting) by that time (you send your votes by e-mail, not in the comments to this piece. I repeat DO NOTE VOTE IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS PIECE).

Be sure to first click here to read about the rules and guidelines for the voting (so you don’t vote for stuff that is ineligible). This one is simple, here is a list of all the eligible Elseworlds titles. Just pick your ten favorite stories from that list.

I’d prefer you not share your votes in the comments section – please let’s keep it a surprise until the results go up. You can share your votes then if you’d like!

Have fun voting and be sure to check back April 15th to see the results!

20 Comments

Turd Burglar

1. The story “Laetitia Lerner, Superman’s Babysitter” from Elseworlds 80-Page Giant was later reprinted in a graphic novel of similar stories called “Bizarro Comics #1″ (presented as comics actually made by Bizarro himself, technically putting them all into the same loose pseudo-“continuity”). This does not technically bear the Elseworlds label, but given it’s ties to the aforementioned 80 page special should it be counted as such for the purposes of the list? And furthermore, if it does count then should it’s sequel (Bizarro World) count as well?

2. Should Elseworlds 80-Page Giant be counted as one story or no? (I don’t imagine that the number of votes will differ much either way because nearly all of the votes for the issue will probably be for just one story anyway.)

Adam

Do the “Legends of the Dead Earth” really count as “Elseworlds”? I thought they were “possible futures.” Of course, this was back when Elseworlds were literally “imaginary stories”–there were no alternate Earths where they existed. Plus, at least two of the Dead Earth annuals were worked into continuity (Shazam! and Action Comics).

Adam

Thanks, Brian. I didn’t vote for any “Dead Earth” books anyway, but I think I would have been confused if one of them ended up winning. (“Hey, that’s not an Elseworlds!”) Some of them were decent stories, but not the same animal.

jaymes eagan

Kingdom Come is my favorite Elseworlds mini series, one shot deal is without a doubt Elseworlds Finest. How can you go wrong with Elvis as President and Wonder Woman as leader of the JSA,Elseworlds Finest should have another one shot or at the very least a mini series sequel.